Coin-handling machine.



PATENTED OUT. 24, 1905.

C. S. BATDORP.

COIN HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.29,1904. RENEWED APR.18,1905.

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By jam 802,549- PATENTED 00124, 1905.

v G. S. BATDORF.

COIN HANDLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.29,1904. RENEWED APR. 18,1905.

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CHARLES S. BATDORF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO PATENT OUSTODIAN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

COlN-HANDHNG IVIACHlNE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 24, 1905.

f Application filed January 29, 1904. Renewed April 18, 1905. Serial No. 256,312.

To (til whom it may conccrm Be it known that 1, Cinemas S. BATDORF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Coin-Handling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in coin-counting machines, and especially to the type of machines shown, described, and claimed in my prior applications for patent, Serial Nos. 175,311 and 188,689, filed October 1. 1903, and January 12, 1904, respectively, wherein the counted coins are delivered into bags or receptacles in predetermined amounts.

The present invention has relation to a mechanism for switching the coins after a predetermined number has been deposited in any one of the receptacles, whether the same be a bag, box, or other receiver for counted coins, the several receivers for counted coins being supplied with the amounts they are intended to receive by a continuous operation of the machine and the automatic switching of the coins without interrupting the movement of the machine after the predetermined amount has been deposited into a bag or receptacle. In other words, instead of stopping the machine and the counting devices at the conclusion of each count of a predetermined number of coins I provide means for switching the initial counted coin of the next quota, using the final coin of the predetermined number intended for the first receiver to throw into action the switching devices, and thus position the final guideway or conductor for receiving the next counted coin and its successors and delivering them into their proper receiver. This operation is accomplished successively without stopping the machine or cutting off the current from the motor when an electric current is used as the motive power for the machine.

My present invention consists, essentially, of a final conductor or guide havinga plurality of channels or runways which are brought successively into line with the passage through which the counted coins are ejected.

This invention also consists of the multiple guideway and means for automatically switching the same by the advance of a counted coin of a predetermined number without at the same time stopping the machine or arresting the advance of succeeding coins.

This invention further consists, broadly, of the combination, with continuously-operating coin-counting mechanism, of a coin-distributing means leading to different coin-receivers and means whereby the final coin of a prede- 6O termined number intended for one receiver automatically positions the distributing means to receive the succeeding coins intended for a different receiver.

The invention further consists of the com- 5 bination, with coin-counting mechanism, of a normally-locked multiple guideway for counted coins, with each individual channel thereof leading to an independent receiver, and means within the control of predetermined coins for 7 periodically unlocking the guideway and adjusting it relative to the coin-discharge leading thereto to switch the coins without stopping the operation of the machine or arresting the travel of succeeding coins and then automatically locking the guideway in the position in which it has been moved.

The invention further consists of the parts and the constructions and combinations of parts which I will hereinafter describe and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and. in which simi- 'lar reference characters indicate like parts in the several views, Figure 1 is a side elevation, 5 with the near side of the framework removed, of a coin-counting machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same, showing parts broken away. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a transfer-register. Figs. 1 and 5 9 are enlarged details to be hereinafter described.

For the purposes of illustration, 1 have used in the present drawings the type of machine shown, described, and claimed in my former application, Serial No. 188,689, before mentioned; but 1 wish it understood that the salient features of the present invention are not limited to that form of machine or to any particular form of machine, as it will be manifest that the present invention relates, essentially, to the coin-distributing means, and these are capable of practical use with almost any type of coin-counting machines where the advance of a coin is transmitted to 5 counting devices.

As in the said former application the machine herein shown by way of illustration has a coin-conductor A, which is adjustable in height and width for coins of different diameters and thicknesses, said conductor including the bottom member 10, the slidable top member 11, and the horizontal adjustable member 12, between which and the downturned end of the member 11 is formed the vertical passage through which the coins are successively fed into the range of action of coin-advancing means by means of a forcefeed mechanism, which, as herein shown, includes the oscillating member 13, Which operates in the plane of the vertical passage and delivers the coins successively into the range of action of the coin-advancing means. The means for adjusting the coin-conductor are not herein shown in detail, as they are no essential part of the present invention, and one type of the same is fully described and forms the subject-matter of my said former application, Serial No. 188,689, before mentioned.

The coins after being successively delivered from the conductor by the force-feed mechanism are received into the coin-passage 14: in the range of action of coin-advancing mechanism, which may be of a reciprocating type, as in my former patents, No. 691,435, dated January 21, 1902,, and No. 751,246, dated February 2, 1904, or it may be of the rotatory type, as shown in my said former application, Serial No. 188,689, and which latter, by way of illustration, I use in the present instance, said advancing mechanism comprising a disk 15, with spaced pins 16 operating in the plane of the coin-passage 14 and each adapted to strike the back edge of a coin in said passage and force the coin formed beneath the free end of the pivoted bar 15, which is thereby lifted each time a coin is advanced beneath it. This bar, as in my said former application, carries a rod or connection 16, which is connected with a crank-arm 17 on the axis of the register-wheel 18, the periphery of which is provided with any desired number of ratchet-teeth and has upon its surface opposite the final ratchettooth a lug 19, which is designed to transfer the final count of this wheel to a second or transfer register of any suitable type such, for instance, as the ratchet-wheel 20. (Shown in Fig. 3.) Suitable lifting and retaining pawls 21, 22, may also be used to insure the accurate movement of the register.

As the coins are successively delivered from the coin-passage 14 by the coin advancing means their advance is indicated upon the register-wheel, and as each coin is delivered past the free end of the bar 15 it is received into a guideway and directed to a suitable receiver for counted coins. This guideway forms the essential part of the present invention, and it is of the multiple type, which adapts it to the proper distribution of coins in predetermined quantities to the receivers, which maybe bags suspended from appropriate bag-holding devices, as indicated generally at 23 in Fig. 2.

Any form of receiving vessel may be substituted for the bags, if desired.

The guideway G is set at an appropriate incline, with one end proximate to and in line with the outlet of the passage 14. through which the coin is ejected, and its opposite end is designed to deliver the counted coins to the bags or receivers. The guideway, as shown in Fig. 2, is divided longitudinally into a nu mber of independent channels which branch or diverge at the lower end to properly conduct the coins to the different receivers, and said guideway is swiveled or pivotedsay at 24 whereby the inlets to the individual channels may be brought successively in line with the outlet from the coin-passage 1 1.

In the present case I show the multiple guideway as having seven independent channels, six of which are designed to lead to as many bags or receivers, while the seventh leads to an overflow cup or receiver 25, into which flow coins which are being advanced during the period of changing bags or receivers, as when all the bags or receivers of the series have received their quota of counted coins, said overflow-channel having provisionsay in the nature of a bell, as at 26-for sounding a signal when the first and succeeding coins pass along this channel to advise the operator that the several bags or receivers which have been positioned to receive stated amounts or numbers of coins have been supplied with such amounts or number of coins and are ready for removal and for the substitution of other bags or receivers.

It is my purpose that the multiple guideway shall be within the control of the final coin of predetermined number of coins and that said final coin in its advance beneath the bar 15 shall, through the connections with the coincounting features, automatically switch the guideway so that the channel into which said final coin is intended to enter shall immediately after the final coin has entered therein be moved out of line with the discharge from the coin-passage 14 and the next succeeding channel of the guideway shall be alined with said coin-passage in timeto receive thefirst coin of the next predetermined number intended for a ditferent bag or receiver, this operation being effected without stopping the operation of the machine or arresting the advance of the coins, whereby the machine may be continuously in operation and an indefinite number of counted coins may be collected in predetermined quantities and in rapid succession during a single run of the machine, avoiding frequent stoppages and the vibration and strain upon the moving parts which result more or less therefrom.

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As before indicated, the passage of each coin beneath the bar 15 results in the registerwheel being moved a distance of one tooth, and if said wheel has fiftyteeth (it may have any desired number) its lug 19, which stands opposite the final tooth will, as the wheel makes its final movement of revolution, actuate a pawl 27, and thus move the transfer register-wheel 20, Fig. 8, one tooth or point, which operation is repeated each time the initial register-wheel makes a complete movement. ating the transfer-register may be of any appropriate type, the arrangement shown "in my former application, Serial No. 188,689, being well suited for the purpose.

The transfer register-wheel is preferably provided with a number of holes 28, one standing opposite each of the teeth with which said wheel is provided, said holes adapted to receive removable pins 29, which may be set in any desired position or order, depending on the number of coins intended to be deposited in each bag or receiver, the pins being designed to release the multiple guideway at the right period in the cycle of operation to allow the guideway to be shifted to carry one channel thereof out of the line of travel of succeeding coins and to bring another chan nel in line with the travel of said coins, as I will presently describe.

By way of illustration 1 will assume the transfer register-wheel to be supplied with sixty ratchet-teeth and a like number of holes and that one of the pins 29 is placed in p a the hole numbered 20, a second pin in the hole numbered 4:0, and a third pin in the hole numbered 60, this being, say, the arrangement when I wish to deposit one thousand (1,000) counted coins in each bag or receiver. Any greater or less number of coins may of course be likewise deposited by changing the position and number of the pins on the wheel 20. Now as the registerwheel 18 makes one complete rotation upon each count of, say, fifty (50) coins, and then through the intermediate connections causes the transfer-register 20 to be moved one tooth forward, it will be manifest that twenty revolutions of the wheel 18 will be necessary to advance the pin at the hole 2O of the transfer-register to a given point, which may be represented by the end 30 of the pivoted s 'n-ing-pressed lever 81, and which end of said lever is normally disposed in the path of travel of the pin. This lever bl is springpressed and is provided with an inclined or cam portion 32, which furnishes a seat for a small antifriction-roller 33, carried by the upper end of a vertical spring-pressed rod 3 f, as shown in Fig. 2.

Extending transversely across the machine and disposed just over the multiple guideway is a fixed channeled bar 35, in which is slidably guided a ratchet-bar 36, as shown in Fig.

The pawl 27 and the means for actu- 5, and upon the fixed barispivotally mounted a lever 37, having a pawl 38 with a shoulder 39, behind which the lower end of the aforesaid spring'pressed rod 3% is adapted to engage to normally hold the point of the pawl out of engagement with the teeth of the ratchet-bar 36, said pawl when the rod 34: is withdrawn from behind the shoulder 39 being moved into operative engagement with the ratchet-bar. The pawl is carried by the pivoted lever 37, one end of which is adapted to lie in the range of action of suitable cams 40, fixed to a member or disk 41, which operates in unison with the coin-advancing means, whereby the lever is periodically tripped to shift the multiple guideway, which is connected with the transversely-slidable ratchetbar 3 by means of a link connection &2, said bar being also connected with a spring 43 for returning it to normal position to reset the guideway for a new operation.

The lever 37 is pivoted at as to an extension of the fixed bar, and a spring 4L5, connected to the lever, tends to draw the end of the lever which is presented toward the coin-advancing means into the range of action thereof, but which action is resisted, and said end of the lever normally maintained out of the range of action of the cams by the aforesaid trip rod 34, which by locking behind the shoulder of the pawl prevents the end of the lever carrying the pawl from moving until said pin has been tripped in the manner before explained, when the spring a5 immediately acts to throw the inner end of the lever into the range of action of the next succeeding cam 4E0. At the same time the pawl is moved back, say, about one tooth of the ratchet-bar, and the spring of the now released pawl draws the point of the pawl into direct engagement with the ratchet-bar, in which position it remains until the next advancing cam etO strikes the inner end of the lever 37 and rocks the lever about its pivotal center and throws the outer end of the lever in the 0pposite direction. This results in the ratchetbar 36 being moved a distance of one of its teeth, and as the multiple guideway is connected to this bar it will be manifest that the position of the guideway will be shifted to bring a new channel in alinement with the coin-passage 14-, whereby succeeding coins of another predetermined number may be directed into the receiver with which the newlypositioned channel communicates or connects.

The timing of the machine is such that as soon as the inner end of the lever is forced outward to its full limit by a cam 40 to give the full stroke to the ratchet-bar the spring-pressed pin 3 L, which up to this point has had its lower end resting upon the top of the pawl 38 in advance of the shoulder, will come into alinement with the shoulder and will spring behind the same as the pawl reaches substan tially the limit of its advance movement and will thus hold the lever 37 in this outer position with its inner end substantially out of the range of action of the cams 40. At the same time the point of the pawl 38 will be lifted by the action of the rod 34 out of the teeth of the ratchet-bar 36.

l -.,The foregoing operations are repeated until the several channels of the guideway have been successively alined with the coin-passage through which the coins are ejected, and when the last channel has served its purpose and all the bags or receivers have been supplied with the predetermined number of coins, all of which has been accomplished automatically and without stopping the continuous operation of the machine, the bags or receivers may be removed and new ones substituted. lVhile this operation of substituting new bags or receivers is going on and which requires but a short space of time to perform the machine may continue in motion, and the coins which are counted and ejected during this period pass down the supplementary guide-channel of the multiple guideway, which is now alined with the coin-passage 14, and are delivered into the overflow-cup or supplemental receiver 25, and when the new set of bags or receivers are in position the power of the machine may be shut 0E by manipulating a switchlever or electric cut-out 46, the construction and operation of which may closely follow the same devices shown, described, and claimed in my former applications. When the power is thus cut ofl or before, if desired, the multiple guideway may be instantly returned to normal position by depressing the long arm of a pivoted retaining-pawl 47, whose point is thus lifted out of the teeth of the ratchet-bar, when the spring as, which is connected to this bar, returns the latter and its attached multiple guideway to the initial position with the first of the series of channels in line with the coin-passage.

The general operation of the machine will be understood from the foregoing, but may be briefly reviewed as follows: The coins are received into the coin-conductor from a suitable source and are delivered into the coinpassage 14 in the range of action of the coinadvancing means and by the latter are successively ejected from the passage, the ejection of each coin being indicated upon the register. When as many coins have been ejected as there are teeth or pawls on the register, the latter completes one full movement, which is immediately transmitted to the transfer-register, and the latter is accordingly moved a distance of one point or tooth. This operation is repeated until the properly-placed pin 29 in one of the holes of thetransfer-register, and which position of the pin represents the final coin of the predetermined number to be deposited into the bag or receiver, strikes the end of the pawl 31, and thereby trips the rod 34 to cause it to release the pawl 38 and allow the lever 37 to turn its pivotal center and carry its inner end into the range of action of the neXt advancing cam 40, so that said cam may rock the lever just as the said final coin has been delivered into its proper channel of the guideway and cause the pawl 38 to move the ratchet-bar one tooth in advance, and thereby switch the guideway to bring the succeeding channel in line with the coin-passage 1% ready for the next distribution of coins.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a machine of the character described, and in combination with coin-counting mechanism, a multiple guideway for counted coins and means for automatically switching the coins by the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins.

2. In a coin-counting machine having a coin-passage through which coins are successively ejected, means controlled by the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins for diverting the travel of a succeeding coin.

3. In a counting-machine having a coinpassage and means for ejecting coins in succession therefrom, a means for distributing ejected coins in predetermined quantities said distributing means controlled by the ejection of one predetermined coin for diverting the travel of a succeeding coin.

4. In a machine of the character described, a counting mechanism, in combination with a multiple guideway for distributing counted coins.

5. In a counting-machine having a coinpassage and coin-ejecting means, a guideway for distributing counted coins, having a plurality of passages adapted to be brought successively into line with the coin passage through which the coins are ejected.

6. In a counting-machine having a coinpassage and coin-ejecting means, a guideway for counted coins, having a plurality of substantially parallel passages leading to different places of deposit, and means for successively alining the inlets of the passages with the point of coin-ejection.

7. In a coin-counting machine having a coin-passage and coin-ejecting means, a pivotally-mounted guideway to be alined with the coin-passage and to distribute the coins received therefrom.

8. In a coin-counting machine having a coin-passage and coin-ejecting means, a pivotally-mounted distributer having a plurality of independent guide-channels to be successively alined with the coin-passage, each of said channels leading to a separate point of deposit.

9. In a coin-counting machine having a coin-passage and coin-ejecting mechanism, a

eoasae multiple guideway shiftable relative to the coin passage and distributing the ejected coins to various places of deposit.

10. A coin-counting machine having a coin passage and coin-ejecting means, in combination with a distributer for counted coins, and means for imparting thereto a step-by-step movement.

11. A coin-counting machine having a coinpassage and coin-ejecting means, in combination with a pivotally-mounted distributer for counted coins, and means for imparting thereto a periodic movement.

12. A coin-counting machine having a coinpassage and coin-ej ecting means, in combina tion with a movable distributer for counted coins, and means for imparting thereto a step-by-step side movement.

13. In a machine of the character described, having means for ejecting coins, means forming a series of channels along which, coins of a predetermined number suc cessively travel, and means actuated dur ing the passage into one channel of the final coin of a predetermined number of coins, for positioning a succeeding channel to receive the next succeeding coin.

14. In a counting-machine having a coinpassage and coin ejecting mechanism, a guideway for counted coins having a plurality of coin-passages with independent inlets at its receiving end.

15. In a coin-counting machine having a coin-passage and coin-ejecting mechanism, a guideway for counted coins having a plurality of coin-passages with independent inlets at the receiving end, and independent discharges.

16. In a counting-machine having a coinp ass age and coin-ej ecting mechanism, a guide way for counted coins having its receiving end disposed proximate to the passage through which the counted coins are ejected said guideway having a plurality of independent channels with independent inlets and outlets, and means whereby said inlets are successively alined with the said coin-passage.

17. In a machine of the character described, having a coin-passage a guideway for counted coins having its receiving end disposed. proximate to the passage through. which the counted coins are ejected said guideway having a plurality of independent channels with independent inlets and outlets, and means within the control of the count of a final coin of a predetermined number of coins for changing the position of the inlets to the guideway-channels relative to the said coin-passage through which the coins are ejected.

18. In. machine of the character described, having a coin-passage a guideway :l or counted coins having its receiving end proximate to the passage through which the coins are ejected said guideway having a plurality of distributing-channels with independent inlets and outlets said inlets adapted to be successively alined with said coin-passage, and an independent passage for overflow coins.

19. In a machine of the character described, having a coin-passage a multiple guideway for coins having its receiving end proximate to the passage through which the coins are ej ected said guideway having its several passages adapted to be successively alined with the said coin-passage, and a signaling means actuated by a passing coin. when the last of the passages has been moved out of line with the said coin-passage.

20. In a machine of the character described, having a coin-passage a multiple guideway for coins having independent channels adapted to be successively alined with the passage through which the coins are ejected a supplementary channel for coins adapted to be alined with said coin-passage when the last of the first-named channels is moved out of line with said coin-passage, and a signal actuated by the coins passing along the supplementary channel.

21. In a machine of the character described, having a coin-passage a guideway for counted coins said guideway having a series of independent channels adapted to be successively alined with the passage through which the counted coins are ejected, means for locking the guideway with one of its channels in line with said coin-passage, means for unlocking the guideway during the count of a predetermined coin, means for moving the guideway to cause another of its channels to be alined with the said coin.- passage, and means for locking the guideway in its new position. 22. In a machine of the character described having a coin-passage and means for ejecting the coins therefrom, a guideway having a series of independent channels for distributing the counted coins, and means operating substantially coordinately with the coin-ej ecting means for moving the guideway to bring its channels successively in. line with the said coin-passage.

23. In a machine of the character described, having a counting mechanism, and a coin-passage and means for ejecting the coins therefrom, a normally locked guideway having a series of channels for distrilmting the counted coins, means controlled by the counting mechanism for unlocking the guideway during the count of a [inal coin of a p redetermined number of coins, and means operating substantially coordinately with the coin-ejecting mechanism for shifting the guideway whereby its channels may be successively alined with the coin-passage.

24. In a machine of the character described, having a counting mechanism, and a coin-passage and means for ejecting the coins therefrom, a guideway having independent channels for distributing the counted coins, means including a slidable ratchet-bar connected to the guideway, a lever and a pawl carried thereby and adapted to engage with said bar, a trip member engaging the pawl and normally holding it out of engagement with the ratchet-bar, means actuated by the counting mechanism for tripping the member and allowing the released pawl to engage the ratchet-bar, and means acting substantially coordinately with the coin-ejecting means for rocking the lever and moving the ratchet and guideway whereby the channels of the latter may be successively alined with the passage through which the coins are ejected.

25. In a machine of the character described, the combination with counting mechanism, a coin-passage and means for ejecting coins therefrom, of a pivoted guideway having a plurality of distributingchan nels, a retractable ratchet-bar connected to the guideway, a pivoted lever, a springpressed pawl pivoted to the lever and provided with a shoulder, a slidably-mounted spring-pressed rod having one end to lock behind said shoulder and thereby hold the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet-bar, means actuated by the count of a filial coin of a predetermined number of coins for actuating the rod to release said pawl and allow the latter to engage the ratchet-bar, and cams moving coordinately with the coinejecting means, said lever having a spring which projects the lever into the range of action of the cams when the pawl is released whereby the latter is actuated to move the ratchetbar to bring a new channel of the guideway in line with the coin-passage, and said rod locking behind the shoulder of the pawl and lifting the latter out of engagement with the ratchet-bar when the lever has made its full movement, and a retainingpawl for the ratchet-bar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES S. BATDORF. lVitnesses:

n. C. TYLER, NORA V. FALLow 

